BORAS: DODGERS ‘BOUGHT STORE’

With baseball awash in record revenue as the signing season starts, Scott Boras compares the habits of teams to families sifting through supermarket shelves.

At the winter meetings in Dallas last year, the agent had this to say of the financially troubled Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets: “Normally, they’re in the steaks section, and I found them in the fruits-and-nuts category a lot.”

Since then, the Dodgers have been sold for $2 billion. The Mets owners have agreed to pay up to $162 million — and likely much less — in a deal with the trustee for Bernard Madoff’s fraud victims.

So on Wednesday at the general managers’ meeting in Indian Wells, Boras said his view of the Dodgers had changed.

“I think they bought the store,” he said.

And as for the Mets?

“The best you can say is that they might be in the freezer section,” he explained.

Izturis goes to Jays

Infielder Maicer Izturis became the first major league free agent this offseason to join a new team, agreeing Thursday to a $10 million, three-year contract with the Toronto Blue Jays. Toronto said the deal was for $3 million annually. The team has a $3 million option for 2016 with a $1 million buyout.

Around the majors

Tino Martinez has been hired as the Miami Marlins’ hitting coach and will work with new manager Mike Redmond.

• Gary Tuck will return as bullpen coach of the Boston Red Sox next season under new manager John Farrell.

• Oakland GM Billy Beane was given the major league executive of the year award by The Sporting News.